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In the Hebrew Bible, Humans Never Learn. But Neither Does God.

Read to its tragic depths, the Bible suggests that the last, cruelest laugh is always on God.

From The Golden Calf by Herrad of Landsberg, 12th century.Wikimedia.

From The Golden Calf by Herrad of Landsberg, 12th century.Wikimedia.
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Hillel Halkin
April 13 2020
About the author

Hillel Halkin’s books include Yehuda Halevi, Across the Sabbath River, Melisande: What are Dreams? (a novel), Jabotinsky: A Life (2014), and, most recently, After One-Hundred-and-Twenty (Princeton). 

Before Leon Kass in the “People-Forming Passover,” there was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781).

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